The essence of the allegations against the company are that it has an undisclosed level of closeness to the Chinese government, which itself has an agenda to spy on the United States and potentially, should it be necessary, disrupt American telecommunications systems. If those two things are correct, the Committee says, Huawei should not be let anywhere near deals allowing it access to the country’s core communications infrastructure.

As a maker and vendor of core communications infrastructure, that is obviously something of a problem for Huawei, which has spent much of the last decade feasting on the market share of its competitors in Europe, Asia and Africa.

The report that was made public today is unfortunately missing what it claims to be the juiciest details of Huawei’s misbehavior - there is, the Committee said, a classified section of the report that “provides significantly more information adding to the Committee’s concerns,” but alas, “that information cannot be shared publicly without risking U.S. national security.”

With that being said, the Committee says it has seen enough evidence, both classified and unclassified, to conclude that addressing the concerns it raises is “an imperative for the country.”